On April 5, 2005 05:34 pm, Gene Lake wrote: > April 5th, 2005 > > Have attempted to install KDE-3.4.0 on my Debian system by pointing > my sources.list at 'deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ > ./ > > The install failed because of errors with 'Kdict' and 'Kmail'. > > I downloaded these two packages from the alioth.debian.org site and > tried to install with 'dpkg -i', but got these errors: > > GHLake:~# dpkg -i /root/kdict_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 72555 files and directories currently > installed.) Unpacking kdict (from .../kdict_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /root/kdict_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/scalable/apps/kdict.svgz', which is also > in package kdebase-data > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /root/kdict_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb > GHLake:~# dpkg -i /root/kmail_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 72555 files and directories currently > installed.) Preparing to replace kmail 4:3.3.2-2 (using > .../kmail_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement kmail ... > dpkg: error processing /root/kmail_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/scalable/apps/kmail.svgz', which is also > in package kdebase-data > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /root/kmail_3. > > If I'm sending this report to the wrong place, I'm sorry. Hope this > helps solve the problem. > > -Gene- Try using dpkg -i --force-overwrite /root/kmail_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb /root/kdict_3.4.0-0pre1_i386.deb then dpkg --configure -a to configure the packages that were missed when the error occurred. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation. GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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